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Anthony Weiner launches bid to become NYC mayor

3:40am

(AP) Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.

Okla. residents come home to pick up the pieces

3:40am

(AP) With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years.

Scranton mayor race pits Courtright, Lewis

12:40am

Financial analyst Garett Lewis is expected to face Scranton tax collector Bill Courtright in the race for Scranton mayor in the November general election, according to unofficial results from the primary election Tuesday.

Luzerne County Controller Walter Griffith's pending felony wiretap charge didn't stop Republicans from choosing him as their nominee for another term, according to unofficial election results.

Griffith survives primary

12:40am

Bednar bests Urban in Dems’ contest

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12:39am

Fewer than one in five registered Luzerne County voters went to the polls Tuesday for the Democratic and Republican primaries in which many ballots were uncontested and there were few countywide races to drive turnout.

Turnout low and a wait for write-ins

12:39am

Lawyers Alexandra Kokura and Jerry Mecadon will square off in the Nov. 5 General Election for the district judge seat vacated when Fred Pierantoni became a Luzerne County judge, according to unofficial results late Tuesday night.

Kokura, Mecadon capture Pittston DJ nods

12:39am

Eight candidates ran for spot in expanded magisterial district, all but two cross-filed.

(AP) The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for...

Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.

5:39pm

(AP) Iran's election overseers removed potential wild card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a...

Top figures barred from Iran's June ballot

3:38pm

(AP)

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

2:36pm

(AP) Jodi Arias told a jury Tuesday that she can contribute to society if allowed to live, saying she'd like to start literacy, recycling and other programs in...

Arias tells jury what she'll do if allowed to live

2:36pm

(AP) Backed by elite troops of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, Syrian government forces fought rebels in a strategic opposition-held Syrian town near the Lebanese border...

Syrian, Hezbollah troops fight rebels in key town

12:36pm

(AP) The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who...

In tornado's wake, worried parents seek out kids

11:38am

Leading Senate Democrat: IRS behavior intolerable

10:39am

(AP) The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.

Medical examiner: 24 dead in Oklahoma twister

9:36am

(AP) I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my...

AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school

5:36am

Former IRS commissioner heads to Hill amid scandal

4:36am

(AP) As soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV, I had to leave the office right away. I had photographed about a dozen tornados in my decade in Oklahoma and if I didn't get...

AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school

4:36am

(AP) It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The...

Policy, discretion guide media sources probes

3:37am

(AP) A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a...

Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51

12:37am

OKLAHOMA CITY — A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks crumpled on the sides of highways.

Tornadoes rip through Oklahoma once more

9:22pm

(AP) White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming report was likely to find that IRS employees had...

More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

5:37pm

(AP) In a long-awaited White House visit, President Barack Obama told Myanmar's president that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country in "a long and...

Obama cites Myanmar reforms during leader's visit

4:38pm

(AP) The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how...

GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes

3:37am

(AP) The Long Island college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an...

Split-second choice ended with NY student dead

3:37am

(AP) Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to...

Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town

10:36pm

(AP) The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision in law enforcement:...

Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

9:36pm

(AP) A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up...

Tornadoes hit Kan., Okla.; no injuries reported

7:36pm

AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

1:36pm

(AP) Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North...

Damaged trains being removed from wreck site

11:36am

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